Focus on Biofuels| IGL collaborates with technical partners for setting up 19 CGB plants

The plants would aid in IGL's city gas distribution network (Representative image)

Indraprastha Gas Limited (IGL) on February 7 signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with two technical partners at India Energy Week 2024 for setting up 19 compressed biogas (CBG) plants.

The country’s largest city gas distribution company said the CBG plants are expected to be set up in the next 12-18 months.

The focus on development of biofuel infrastructure in India comes as the government is pushing the use of alternate energy sources. To give push to the biogas industry Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the interim budget promised financial assistance for procurement of biomass aggregation machinery

IGL's partnership aims to produce 0.45 MMSCMD (million metric standard cubic meters per day) of biogas from waste, equivalent to approximately 5 percent of IGL's daily requirements.

The plants would be set across four states, namely Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Additionally, IGL has empaneled two other partners for the same purpose.

The biogas produced from these 19 plants shall be fed into IGL’s city gas distribution network, the company said in a press release.

The MOUs were signed in the presence of Praveen Mal Khanooja (IA &AS), Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG), Mr. K.K Chatiwal, Managing Director of IGL, Mr. Pawan Kumar, Director (Commercial) of IGL, and other senior officials.